Question

I’m not familiar at all with the process behind this, but what I would like is to have a rule in the .htaccess file that will append .php after a URL IFF the URL is indeed a file.

I have:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

for the redirecting if a user types in the URL without the .php extension, but in addition to the redirect, I would like to actually append the URL with the .php extension. Is this possible?

Answer 1

You will need to use the R flag so that the client is instructed to redirect to the new URL.